bludbendingrtnow
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*** On hiatus ***
Step one: Introduce someone who never completely dealt with their own experiences to someone who has just been freed from their personal hell.
Step two: Complicate this further with aggressive implications of world-ending doom.
Step three: Throw in an archfey that prides themselves on being an engaged and hands-on patron but is actually also kind of weird, even by fey standards.
Step four: Profit?
Generally canon-compliant, not-entirely-a-rewrite of BG3. Astarion x Tav: Echo is a high elf bladelock that has spent too much time around an archfey and it shows.
Chock full of trauma and yearning, but there are puns to keep things light.
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- Part 2 of Open Invitation
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12 Apr 2024
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Astarion sat on his throne, holding court in a posture that seemed to mock both the seat and the setting: leaning on one armrest, chin propped up on his palm, one leg thrown over the opposite arm, and an expression that suggested he could not possibly be more bored.
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Medieval-Glam-Rock-Bard!Tav skipped town after they smashed the Netherbrain and Ascendant Astarion *smashed her heart.*
Now, five years later, maybe they'll get a cup of coffee and work things out.
Nah, I'm lying this is a banter-aggressive, drama-heavy, fake
datingcourtship, slow-burnin' story informed by personal and shared trauma, identity, dysfunction, and the unresolved sexual tension that only a full-Lawful/Neutral-Evil Astarion vs. Mostly-Chaotic-Sometimes-Neutral Good Tav could produce.Series
- Part 2 of a palm full of stars
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11 Apr 2024
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Zoraya Naelgrath is gearing up to start her own legal practice when a call from her past unexpectedly places her in the offices of Astarion Ancunin, a young magistrate known for his racial prejudice and various sex scandals that have made him the laughing stock of his colleagues. Tasked with preventing his dooming expulsion from office, Zoraya has no choice but to face the man who was once her best friend in the entire world, as well as her childhood crush. A crush that is, of course, ancient history now that Astarion is a perpetually hungover, selfish bastard interested in little else than cementing his standing among the elite of Baldur’s Gate – most notably Lord Cazador Szarr, an enigmatic nobleman with pale skin and an unsettlingly keen interest in Astarion.
"Beauty and the Beast" meets "Suits"
Or: What if Magistrarion had a badass half Gur childhood bestie who's definitely not in love with him and starts working for him right as a certain pale-faced, red-eyed nobleman gets ready to make his move?
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08 Apr 2024
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Prodigal Son by Scaryanne
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
02 Oct 2024
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Tavya watched Astarion's eyes scan the name written across the front. Once, twice, three times. Then he looked to her, nearly stunned into silence. “I— What is this?”She gently tugged the envelope from his grasp. “I wrote to them. Your family. Or, well, your parents, anyway," Tavya stuttered. "I searched and searched and I finally found names and an address, but it’s been so long since I've written… I didn’t think…”
“You… found them?” he asked numbly.
“I… I think so.”
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Astarion is enjoying married life in Baldur's Gate when he discovers his parents are still alive. Alongside his wife, Tavya, he travels to Evereska to meet them - but family reunions are seldom simple.
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- Part 2 of you and me, we got our own sense of time
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04 Apr 2024
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Some part of him could picture it then, could imagine telling her everything - speaking til dawn on his whole history. Spending the next day in this same spot, diving into what he knew of hers. Asking how it felt to gore that bard. Instead, he mirrored her smile - his own wicked grin for seducing and scheming.
“I’ve wanted to taste you since I first felt that pretty neck under my blade.”
And as her head fell back in a laugh, the white expanse of her neck on full display at his easy, overused line, he watched the golden girl fall into the palm of his hand.
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COMPLETED.Astarion had known the woman's face immediately - Halia Dhune, the golden daughter of Baldur's Gate. The princess of the upper city. How many times had Cazador sent him after her - wanting to claim the socialite as a trophy to add to his awful collection? At least now he wouldn't have to go back to his master empty handed, should the tadpole situation not work out in his favor.
(or: what if the Dark Urge was a noble woman, perfect and popular, and her father's favorite fox in the henhouse. and of course, what if our dear vampire knew of her before the crash?)
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02 Apr 2024